Pronounciation of "Waring"

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hello,

I had just come across these vintage blender videos on youtube, but the guy says "Wearing".
Before this, it never occured to me other than "Waring" (like in "war").
I searched some dictionary sites and they have both ways "WEARing" and "WORing".
So is it like "wear and tear /warehouse" or like "warning /warcraft" ?

Thanks.
 
Immer wie "wearing" ausgeprägt.

Es gibt "warring" auf englisch (z.B. two nations warring with each other), aber mit zwei "r's". Es gibt kein englisches Wort "waring" (ein r), aber Waring ist der Familiename des Erfinders (Dirigent Fred Waring).
 
Fred Waring, the orchcestra leader invented the "Waring&

But what has an orchestra leader have to do with kitchen appliances? What's the story? I am more than amazed.
 
Based on a wikipedia search:

 

"In the 1930s, inventor Frederick Jacob Osius went to Waring for financial backing for an electric blender he had patented. The Osius patent (#2,109,501) was filed March 13, 1937 and awarded March 1, 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></sup> Some $25,000 later, the Waring-owned Miracle Mixer was introduced to the public at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago retailing for $29.75. In 1938, Fred Waring renamed his Miracle Mixer Corporation as the Waring Corporation, and the mixer's name was changed to the Waring Blendor (the "o" in blendor giving it a slight distinction from "blender)."
 
There was a 1940s band and vocal group called "Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians". I am too young to have remembered them when they actually were in business, but I remember owning an album of Christmas songs (variety mix) and one of them was performed by "Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians". At any rate, Fred Waring also invented--or owned the patents to-- the Waring blendor. The article below discusses his music as well as the blendor.

 

auch auf deutsch:  http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Waring

[this post was last edited: 6/26/2011-18:26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Waring
 
here is a Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Christmas song



 

Clearly, this is "popular" rather than traditional or sacred Christmas music, but songs like these made their way into Christmas variety albums that people might play while hosting a holiday-themed party during December. A note about US society that may seem odd to Europeans: people often entertain at "holiday parties" (complete with Christmas decorations, Christmas food specialties, and Christmas music) on the first, second, third, and sometimes fourth weekends of Advent (more common on the 4th weekend if it is a full week before Christmas, less common if it is shortly before Christmas). The tree is up and decorated. Having been a guest in European homes in early December, normally there are no Christmas decorations until Christmas Eve. One might see an Advent wreath, or possibly some green decorations (poinsettia, holly, etc.) but no tree or actual Christmas decorations until shortly before Christmas.

 

This is in keeping with the tradition of Advent being a pentitential time, when lavish celebrations are inappropriate until Christmas, even among people who do not attend church and who are not particularly religious. Meanwhile, in the USA, you see nearly everyone, whether religious or not, participating in holiday parties (the "office" party and usually friends having parties, typically on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays). Liturgically, mainly Catholics, Anglicans, and mainstream Protestants (Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian) observe Advent at church, whereas nondenominational and evangelical Christians barely known what Advent is. But it doesn't matter: nearly everyone attends a holiday party or two.

 

Churches that observe Advent here taking varying approaches to how strictly they observe Advent. Most Catholic and Anglican churches, for example, would not host any "Christmas concerts" (the idea being that if you want to hear Christmas carols, you can come to Christmas Eve services and hear them). More common would be musical presentations that are loosely related to Christmas (e.g. Handel's Messiah) but not "Christmas per se". Another example would be the "Ceremony of Lessons and Carols" in some Anglican churches: the carols relate to Advent more than to Christmas, and the Bible readings are likewise Advent-related. On the other hand, I've attended a Christmas concert at a local Presbyterian church which was fully decorated for Christmas two weeks early and Christmas carols were sung. I've also sung in a Messiah concert in a Methodist church in early December which was already fully decorated for Christmas, three weeks early.
 
Fred Waring video

A Christmas television program from the 1950s. (there is a bonus ad for General Electric, though Filter Flo isn't mentioned).

 

What I recall from that one album I owned (with the single Fred Waring/Pennsylvanians Christmas song) was that his style was rather dated, syrupy, and "ersatz". The video linked below did nothing to change my opinion. B-O-R-I-N-G.

 
Fred Waring was the Lawrence Welk/Mitch Miller/Bert Kaempfert/Ray Coniff of his time. Not the hookiest stuff.

The blenders were pretty bulletproof. They should be. $30 in 1938 is $460 today.
 
No need to add to what's already been said about Fred Waring's involvement with the Blendor.

 

When I was younger and collected 78 RPM records (back when thrift stores sold them for a dime each) I remember passing over anything by Waring/Pennsylvanians because I found him so boring.  He couldn't compare to the likes of Paul Whiteman, Isham Jones, Nat Shilkret or even Hal Kemp.
 
I saw Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians live about 1970 or so, but I was too young to have retained much of it. By that point in his career a lot of the show was played for laughs. I loved his version of "The Night Before Christmas" and still have that album.

It might help non-English speakers to know that Waring rhymes with Daring.
 
I enjoyed the Fred Waring christmas songs played on the links!Very good-Folks had TALENT in those days-they could REALLY sing-not Moan,Scream,or hollar the song as done today.This would be a nice TV show to see.and wonder how many Hi-fis in that time were playing the Waring albums.The link for the Waring blenders doesn't work.
 
phonetics

Because a is followed by a single consonant (r) in "Waring", the a would take the "long a" sound, rhyming with "daring". It also rhymes with "wearing", but I think that "wearing" is an irregular exception, because it takes a "long a" sound rather than the regularly expected "long e" sound, which would rhyme with "fearing".

Normally, in an English diphthong (two adjacent vowels), "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking</span>"---a rhyme I was taught in first year of elementary school, age six. "Nearing" and "fearing" take the "long e" sound, which follows the phonetics rules. "Wearing" with the "long a" sound is an exception, so <span style="text-decoration: underline;">supersuds</span> is correct in advising a rhyme with "daring", which "follows the rules", since only one consonant after the a makes that a "long".
 
Correct...

Except that in the 70s, I think, I remember some skit or program with an oriental chef calling it the Walling Blendor. I heard many friends imitating the pronunciation, but I cannot remember where it came from. Maybe something from SNL?

A friend's grandmother had a apartment in NYC and the electricity was Direct Current, like the subways and elevators. She had a bisexual Waring Blendor that ran on dc or ac. He remembers this because it was taken along on trips out to the place on Long Island where the electricity was alternating current.
 
Edison is widely considered a great inventor but what he really was was a technological P.T. Barnum, a marketing hustler. For all the things he's known for--light bulbs, phonographs, moving pictures--he took (stole) existing inventions, repackaged and promoted them. He actually invented two things. One was extremely useful, the carbon telephone microphone which made Bell's invention practical, otherwise you couldn't have talked to anyone but your next-door neighbor. The other was the media event.

Edison pushed DC for two reasons. One, the dynamo had been around long enough where it was royalty free. He didn't have to pay anyone, just make them. Two, DC requires a generating stations roughly as close as any two Starbucks in a metro, or 1-mile radius, so he stood to sell a LOT of stations. Duhh, never figured out that huge AC stations sold for the same multiple, but there was still that royalty thing. BTW, Tesla let Westinghouse slide on his royalty payments. But he definitely wouldn't have done that for Edison, who screwed him out of a promised $50,000 bonus for solving a problem. (That's right, Tesla at one time worked for Edison.)

Edison wasn't a genius, he was a hosebag. An industrial charlatan before it became a demographic.
 
That's a considerable exaggeration. Edison was wrong, in the end, about DC power distribution, although there were reasonable grounds for thinking it was the best way to go in the early years. Like a lot of us do, he made up his mind and refused to be swayed by new evidence!

 

Nobody had invented a reproducing phonograph before he did; nor were any of the numerous attempts to make a practical incandescent light bulb really successful before he worked out the high-resistance, low-voltage carbon filament (it had widely been assumed that the filament should be of low resistance.)

 

To say that he didn't deserve all the credit he was given for many years should not obscure his real accomplishments.
 
It was an editorial exaggeration for emphasis. But Edison was a 'genius' in the same sense Ron Popiel was.

Phonograph was an extrapolation of Morse's repeating telegraph. Motion pictures was an extrapolation of Edward Muybridge; Edison "invented" a vending machine for them. He cobbled materials and process for resistance lighting, but to my way of thinking that doesn't count as "invention". He just paid a bunch of lab assistants a dollar a week to go through every possible combination.

He refused to sell Westinghouse/Tesla bulbs for the 1893 World Fair. Took Tesla about 24 hours to circumvent his lightbulb patent and make his own.

Nikola Tesla was an inventor. Thomas Edison was a salesman.
 
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Did any of you listen to the song in the link? Did you have the volume up enough to hear the steam locomotive's whistle at the beginning of the song? The sound was so much more beautiful than the air horns on diesel locomotives.

Thank you also for the link because there was a link to another song, The Happy Wanderer, a song I remember from my childhood. We heard it on the radio and mom bought me the 45.
 
Interesting thread drift into Edison and DC.

I remember reading, 10 or 20 years ago, that DC current was staging a comeback for certain types of power transmission. Turns out it can be more efficient that AC for transmitting large amounts of power. Something to do with how AC induces a magnetic field while DC may not. I think. Also that with AC, the electrons are always moving at the frequency, whereas in DC they are only moving in the direction of the power transfer (or away, depending on how you sign things).

Others here will be more up to date on the subject.
 
Yes, I ran across HVDC discussion, only read it once so can't remember 'everything'. High-capacity solid state inverters and rectifiers make it possible. It's still AC going in and AC coming out but transmission is DC.

Two things that destabilize transmission lines are power factor and line inductance, and DC has neither of those. May have other advantages, can't recall.

Edison could have stretched his range using motor-generator sets as transformers and transmission lines running several kV, but think of the maintenance liability of having a 2kV/100V MG every few power poles. By the time a crew got finished rebuilding a subdivision it would be time to start over.
 
HVDC is useful mainly where transmission is in one direction without a lot of line taps, or where the AC grids aren't synchronized -- for instance, the eastern US and Quebec are asynchronous. It also has advantages underwater.

"Phonograph was an extrapolation of Morse's repeating telegraph. Motion pictures was an extrapolation of Edward Muybridge; Edison "invented" a vending machine for them. He cobbled materials and process for resistance lighting, but to my way of thinking that doesn't count as 'invention.'"

By that standard, the digital computer you are using was no big deal, because it was just an extension of the Hollerith punched card system of the 1890s, which was just an extension of a player piano roll. Sheesh.
 
Poor Poor Pitiful Me

Well, I met a girl in West Hollywood
I ain't naming names
She really worked me over good
She was just like Jesse James
She really worked me over good
She was a credit to her gender
She put me through some changes, Lord
Sort of like a Waring blender

~Warren Zevon (also covered by Linda Ronstat and Terri Clark)
 
Edisons lightbulb

In 1875, Edison purchased half of a Toronto medical electrician's patent to further his own research. That researcher was named James Woodward.

Woodward and a colleague by the name of Mathew Evans, described in the patent as a "Gentleman" but in reality a hotel keeper, filed a patent for the Woodward and Evan's Light on July 24, 1874.

Working at the Morrison's Brass Foundry on Adelaide St. West in Toronto, they built the first lamp with a shaped rod of carbon held between electrodes in an glass bulb filled with nitrogen.

Woodward and Evans were treated as cranks and subject to much public ridicule. "Who needs a glowing piece of metal!!" They attempted, with very little success, to form a company to raise money to refine and market their invention. (Where is the federal government when you really need them?)

In 1876, Woodward obtained a U.S. patent on his electric lamp and, in 1879, Edison considered it sufficiently important to completely buy out the patent from Woodward, Evans, and all their Canadian partners. Woodward sold a share of his Canadian patent to Thomas Edison in 1885.

Thus the electric light bulb became American.
 
Petek, would make me wrong about 'stealing' the light bulb so I'll take that back on speculation it can be verified. Just because he stole 3 known times doesn't mean he stole EVERYthing.

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...digital computer was no big deal...... sheesh
====================

You forgot the Jacquard Loom and the Babbage Engine, the abacus and the Antikythera Mechanism. The evolution of the computer I'm writing on was much more one of process than of practice. And no one person presumes having "invented" the computer. In the light of this, I feel you wasted a perfectly-good 'sheesh'.
 

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